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...this somewhat simplifies architectural history. The curving line survived as a kind of subdepartment of Modernism. It flowed through the work of the great Finnish architect Alvar Aalto, spiraled up the ramp of Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim Museum, filled the sails of the Sydney Opera House and even ballooned into the later work of Le Corbusier, the Ur-modernist himself. "It never went entirely away," Kaplicky insists, and he's right. But on the whole, and for a long time, it was straight lines that carried more authority. For decades contours endured a kind of underground existence. Anything...
When Harvard University Police Department (HUPD) officers arrived at the scene at approximately 1:30 p.m. Friday, they found the man, James M. Fink, on the handicap ramp with a cell phone in one hand and a folding knife in the other, according to HUPD spokesman Steven G. Catalano. His speech was incoherent and he appeared to be intoxicated, Catalano said...
Rafael F. Garcia ’09 said that he noticed Fink’s behavior as he and a friend were walking down the ramp out of the Science Center from their 12 p.m. class, at approximately 1:05 p.m. Garcia said that he saw Fink “mumbling on his cell phone” and “stumbling over himself...
Another witness to the incident, Brandon D. Bartch ’08, said that he was sitting at the Greenhouse Café when the police apprehended Fink. Bartch said that he first noticed Fink standing near the rail of the ramp “looking fairly...
Another witness to the incident, Brandon D. Bartch ’08, said that he was sitting at the Greenhouse Café when the police apprehended Fink. Bartch said that he first noticed Fink standing near the rail of the ramp “looking fairly out of it.” He described Fink as slightly overweight with a shaven head, wearing a green jacket...